symptoms, upgrade Ubuntu Edgy to Feisty or installation of Feisty, Gutsy or Hardy dead mouse. Not able to finish the installation or dead in the water after upgrade. Applicable to older system using the intel i8042 chipset. So you may be better of using Xbuntu which also has this problem.
1) Regain control of situation. "shift alternate then hit NumLock". The numbers keypad (block on right side of the keyboard) becomes the mouse. 5 is the left click and the surrounding keys move in the obvious direction. (Additionally 0=lock drag, dot(.)=release drag, *=middle click, -=right click, /=left click and are reported to be qualified with 5, sort of works) 2)New installs simply use the keys 1 to 9 to position cursor and 5 to click and complete the install. 3)Now for the fix. move cursor to Applications 5, move to Accessories 5, move to Terminal 5. You now have an open terminal. Type "sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst" (that's LST) enter the password and find the first line (assuming "default 0") with "kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=37319aae-6b1f-46aa- 95c1-59725562c8a9 ro quiet splash i8042.noloop" or similar this is the kernel that grub will load. If "default 0" then the first kernel will be loaded. At the end of this line add the option "i8042.noloop" as shown, check it then type "cont o", "cr", "cont x", "exit" and "cr". Get control using the numbers keypad and restart the system. The mouse should work. 4) This will have to be repeated each time the kernel is upgraded. There is an option to make this option default. I've not tried it but we can experiment with this "http://grumpymole.blogspot.com/2007/05 /ubuntu-how-to-edit-grub-boot-parameters.html" and "http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15.htm#kopt";. Again "sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst", find the line "# kopt=root=UUID=37319aae-6b1f- 46aa-95c1-59725562c8a9 ro i8042.noloop" again add i8042.noloop at the end. Good luck, hope it works for you as this took me ages to dig out. -- mouse fail on gutsy install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/184856 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
